A person in a vegetative state is alive, can breathe unaided and there is a slim chance of recovery. Brain death is when a person is being kept alive artificially and there is no chance of recovery.

A man in France has regained some degree of consciousness after being in a vegetative state for 15 years. Doctors treated the 35-year-old, injured in a car accident, with an experimental therapy ...

Scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research have used nerve stimulation to induce signs of consciousness in a man who has been in a vegetative state almost half his life.

Clauss R and Nel W (2006) Drug induced arousal from the permanent vegetative state. NeuroRehabilitation 21: 23–28 Zolpidem is an omega-1-specific indirect γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonist ...

A family accused of causing harm to a woman and leaving her in a vegetative state have been released ... the serious bodily harm of a vulnerable person.'" The defence counsel had launched a ...